The Scream

I went to the National Gallery and saw the Edvard Munch exhibit. "The Scream" was great, of course, but the rest of the exhibit was also poignant and dramatic.

The copy of this shown at the gallery is a print.

This next print that I'll show you is "The Sick Child", and, considering that his sister died of TB when he was just a child, it chilled me even more than "The Sceam" did. It was like a real depiction of personal pain.


Lots of the exhibit was devoted to several versions of "Vampire".




Lots was devoted to Madonna.


Munch's mother and sister died when he was young, and his father was a morbidly religious psycotic. This, plus Edvard's own poor health and the vividly macabre ghost and Edgar Allen Poe stories that his father told the children to entertain them probably inspired the macabre visions depicted in Edvard's work.

Those of you readers who knew Dean Scott (if anyone, it is just Lloyd and Bobby Tyler), know this is the type art he'd love. Dean is a guy we used to know who delighted in the macabre.